Richard Abel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard L. Abel is a Professor of Law , a specialist in African Law Studies and a renowned socio-legal scholar. He received his B.A. from Harvard University , his LL.B. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of London where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has been a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law since 1974. He is a past president of the Law and Society Association and editor of the Law & Society Review.
Richard Abel 's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming . . . (1980) (1270)
- The legal profession in England and Wales (1988) (212)
- The Politics of Informal Justice (1982) (197)
- A Comparative Theory of Dispute Institutions in Society (1974) (178)
- AIP mutation in pituitary adenomas in the 18th century and today. (2011) (127)
- English Lawyers between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism (2003) (102)
- Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle against Apartheid, 1980-1994 (1995) (83)
- Redirecting Social Studies of Law (1980) (63)
- THE DECLINE OF PROFESSIONALISM?1 (1986) (61)
- Law Books and Books about Law (1973) (48)
- Comparative Sociology of Legal Professions: An Exploratory Essay (1985) (45)
- Law as Lag: Inertia as a Social Theory of Law (1982) (40)
- BETWEEN MARKET AND STATE: THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN TURMOIL1 (1989) (39)
- The Real Tort Crisis-Too Few Claims (1987) (36)
- The Transformation of the American Legal Profession (1986) (34)
- Law and Society: Project and Practice (2010) (31)
- Lawyers in society : an overview (1995) (30)
- Transnational Law Practice (1994) (26)
- Speaking respect, respecting speech (1998) (25)
- Lawyers in the dock : learning from attorney disciplinary proceedings (2010) (25)
- Lawyers in Society: The Common Law World (1988) (25)
- THE PARADOXES OF PRO BONO (2010) (24)
- Law's Wars (2018) (23)
- Lawyers : a critical reader (1997) (20)
- Law's Trials (2018) (20)
- Lawyers on Trial: Understanding Ethical Misconduct (2010) (18)
- SOCIALIZING THE LEGAL PROFESSION: Can Redistributing Lawyers' Services Achieve Social Justice? (1979) (18)
- The Rise of Professionalism (1979) (16)
- A Critique of American Tort Law (1981) (15)
- A Socialist Approach to Risk (1982) (15)
- General Damages Are Incoherent, Incalculable, Incommensurable, and Inegalitarian (but Otherwise a Great Idea) (2014) (14)
- Customary Laws of Wrongs in Kenya An Essay in Research Method (1969) (13)
- The Pleasures and Perils of Big Data in Digitized Newspapers (2013) (12)
- Lawyers and the Power to Change (1985) (12)
- Comparative Studies of Lawyer Deviance and Discipline (2012) (10)
- The Politics of Informal Justice, Vol. 1: The American Experience.@@@The Politics of Informal Justice, Vol. 2: Comparative Studies. (1983) (10)
- Conservative Conflict and the Reproduction of Capitalism: The Role of Informal Justice* (2017) (10)
- The paradox of professionalism : lawyers and the possibility of justice (2011) (9)
- An alternative press. Why? (1996) (9)
- Lawyers on Trial (2010) (9)
- The making of the English legal profession, 1800-1988 (2005) (9)
- Should Tort Law Protect Property against Accidental Loss (1986) (9)
- Capitalism and the Rule of Law: Precondition or Contradiction? (1990) (8)
- Lawyers in the Dock (2008) (8)
- Risk as an Arena of Struggle (1985) (8)
- The costs of war (1991) (8)
- Evaluating Evaluations: How Should Law Schools Judge Teaching?. (1990) (7)
- Choosing, Nurturing, Training and Placing Public Interest Law Students (2002) (7)
- How the Plaintiffs’ Bar Bars Plaintiffs (2006) (7)
- The Politics of Professionalism: The Transformation of English Lawyers at the End of the Twentieth Century (1999) (7)
- Reaching for the Brass Ring (2010) (7)
- £'s of Cure, Ounces of Prevention (1985) (7)
- The Law & society reader (1995) (7)
- The Underdevelopment of Legal Professions: A Review Article on Third World Lawyers (1982) (6)
- How Marc Galanter Became Marc Galanter (2014) (6)
- Turning Away From Law (1984) (5)
- L's of Cure, Ounces of Prevention (1985) (5)
- THE SOCIOLOGY OF AMERICAN LAWYERS: A Bibliographic Guide (1980) (5)
- Practicing Immigration Law in Filene's Basement (2008) (5)
- Case method research in the customary laws of wrongs in Kenya (1969) (5)
- A Bibliography of the Customary Laws of Kenya (with Special Reference to the Laws of Wrongs) (1969) (4)
- The common law world (1988) (4)
- The professional is political (2004) (4)
- Public Freedom, Private Constraint (1994) (4)
- Theories of Litigation in Society (1980) (4)
- Court Records in Africana Research (1990) (4)
- Custom, Rules, Administration, Community (1984) (4)
- The Failure of Punishment as Social Control (1991) (4)
- Questioning the Counter-Majoritarian Thesis: The Case of Torts (1999) (4)
- The Civil law world (1988) (3)
- What does and should influence the number of lawyers? (2012) (3)
- “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”† Reflections on the reform of legal education in the US, UK, and Australia (2015) (3)
- What else is sociology of law? Reflection on John Griffiths's What is sociology of law? (2017) (3)
- Law Under Stress: The Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa, 1980—94, and the Defence of Legality in the United States After 9/11 (2010) (3)
- Invisible colleges, information, and libraries (1991) (3)
- Cost-plus pricing: An old nag with a second wind? (1988) (3)
- The Crisis Is Injuries, Not Liability (1988) (3)
- Making Public Interest Lawyers In A Time Of Crisis: An Evidence-Based Approach (2020) (3)
- The Politics of Self-Regulation (2010) (3)
- Comparative law and social theory (1978) (2)
- The American experience (1982) (2)
- An American Hamburger Stand in St. Paul's Cathedral: Replacing Legal Aid with Conditional Fees in English Personal Injury Litigation (2014) (2)
- Informalism, Delegalization, and the Future of the American Legal Profession (1983) (2)
- Varieties of Social Discipline: Collective Action in a Law Firm (2004) (2)
- Civil Rights and Wrongs (2005) (2)
- The book publisher's cultural role (1996) (2)
- Judges Write the Darndest Things: Judicial Mystification of Limitations on Tort Liability (2002) (2)
- The librarian as synthesizer (1988) (1)
- The Rise of the American Film Industry (2007) (1)
- The Crooked Road (2001) (1)
- Legal pedagogy and its discontents (2020) (1)
- The Problem of Values in the Analysis of Political Order Myths of Tribal Society and Liberal Democracy (1978) (1)
- An Unlikely Revolutionary (2004) (1)
- Lawyers in Society, Volume 1: The Common Law World. (1990) (1)
- The Contradictions of Legal Professionalism (1990) (1)
- Early Film Programs (2012) (1)
- The Fate of Liberal Democracy under Donald Trump (2022) (0)
- Lawyer self-regulation and the public interest: a reflection (2017) (0)
- Trust and Betrayal (2008) (0)
- Halting the Tide (2004) (0)
- Defending the Rule of Law (2019) (0)
- A Response: How to Defend the Rule of Law? (2020) (0)
- Op Ed-The Book Library as the Cultural Citadel of Knowledge (2016) (0)
- Championing the “Defenseless” and “Oppressed,” Protecting “Widows and Children” (2010) (0)
- The Perils of Perfectionism (2008) (0)
- Capellani avant Griffith, 1906-1908 (2012) (0)
- Defending the Temple (2004) (0)
- In memoriam – Simon Roberts (1941–2014) (2014) (0)
- Medical Injuries Compensation Reform Act: Unconstitutional Until Proven Otherwise (2010) (0)
- Law’s Wars, Law’s Trials The Fate of the Rule of Law in the U.S. ‘War on Terror’ (2019) (0)
- Forecasting Civil Litigation (2014) (0)
- 2. “Newspapers Make Picture-Goers” (2019) (0)
- Informal Alternatives to Courts as a Mode of Legalizing Conflict (1985) (0)
- Speaking with the Ogre (2015) (0)
- Appendix: U. S. Newspapers (2019) (0)
- Reflections on the Publishing Scene An Alternative Press . Why ? (0)
- Bleak House in America (2008) (0)
- Cops Chasing Ambulances (2010) (0)
- Contested communities (1997) (0)
- State support of publishing: Or Milton confuted (1994) (0)
- The Law and Society Reader II (1995) (0)
- Governing a Fractious Profession (2004) (0)
- Playing Games with Sega (2010) (0)
- The Purloined Papers (2008) (0)
- Lawyers and Legal Services (2005) (0)
- Movie Stars and Seriality in the 1910s (2017) (0)
- Serving Two Masters (2004) (0)
- Book Review of Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder (2017) (0)
- The Transformation of Civil Lawyers (1987) (0)
- International library supply: How dealers compete with publishers (1995) (0)
- 3. “In Movie Land, with the Film Stars” (2019) (0)
- An exploration of communicator styles of effective community college instructors (1996) (0)
- Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Volume 1: National Reports (2020) (0)
- the circulation of local newsreels in the silent period (2018) (0)
- Juggling Too Many Balls (2008) (0)
- Rejoinder to Professor Spalding (1974) (0)
- 1. The Industry Goes to Town (and Country) (2019) (0)
- Labour Ends Legal Aid as We Know It (2004) (0)
- Richard Abel's "Speech and Respect"@@@Speech and Respect (1994) (0)
- Law's Wars, Law's Trials (2020) (0)
- Law School (2009) (0)
- Blair, Francis, 51 Blanton v. North Las Vegas 1989, 217n. 4 body images, 145-60; bounded, anticensorship/antipornography and, 147-55; differences in, 146-47, 151 (1998) (0)
- Defending the Rule of Law (2019) (0)
- Customary Laws of Wrongs in Kenya (2013) (0)
- A Response: How to Defend the Rule of Law? (2020) (0)
- Making Regulation Work (2010) (0)
- The early years: African Law Studies (numbers 12–16, 1975–78) (2021) (0)
- Afterword: Reclaiming Jean Epstein (2012) (0)
- Socializing the Legal Profession (2017) (0)
- Conservatives Cut Legal Aid Costs (2004) (0)
- Theory and Methodology (2020) (0)
- The Paradox of Professionalism: Epilogue (2011) (0)
- Books that Shaped the Century (1999) (0)
- Contradictions in the scholarly enterprise and their effects on libraries (1991) (0)
- Morality and public administration (1994) (0)
- Author's Response (2008) (0)
- Keynote Address: The Dialectics of Injury and Remedy (2010) (0)
- Players in the knowledge transfer enterprise (1988) (0)
- Book publishing: Profession or career? The ethical dividing line (1997) (0)
- East African Cases on the Law of Tort . By E. Veitch. (Law in Africa No. 31). London, Sweet & Maxwell. 1972. xxiii, 295 pp. £4·00 (paperback edition available only in Africa, £2·50). (1973) (0)
- John Griffiths 1940–2017 (2017) (0)
- The Politics of Professionalism (2004) (0)
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